Because unlike some leaders he understands how to set a good example for people to follow.

I watched Akira for the first time earlier this year, and didn’t for one second think it reflected current events in any serious way, yes the police are cunts and the Olympics were due to take place in 2020, but the rest of the article is a ridiculous stretch.

I mean, sort of. I’d say that TFA took the New Republic/Rebellion back to where they were at Empire: a fairly large-ish military force with a fleet of ships, but severely out-manned and out-gunned by a larger and better-equipped Empire. TLJ took them back to where they were in ANH, a small, scrappy band of Rebels,…

Everyone likes what they like, but I didn’t have that same experience with TLJ. I didn’t feel like it tried to break the mold. It just inverted it. Which makes sense, because that’s Johnson’s trademark move. Invert cliches. But the problem is that a) an inverted mold still looks like the original and b) a hero story…

The notion of Rey being someone else strong in The Force is nice and all but that would have had to have been worked out before the first movie. Instead we get this whiplash back and forth between TFA and TLJ that suddenly makes a lot of TFA not work. I think someone might have made it work but Rian Johnson just isn’t…

No, it used the exact same mold. It was Empire, a poor, poor copy, with the order rearanged. It still fills the exact second paragraph from lightninglouie.

Two things:

I mean pickles on sandwiches of all kinds predates Chickfila probably by a century. 

It’s extra depressing to see the logical gymnastics some people are willing to perform to defend a blackface joke.

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I think the Luke-trying-to-murder-Kylo thing was a bad call.  They could have tweaked it so they got into a violent argument or something, but “hmmm, I smell the dark side, it’s nephew-murder time” makes no sense.

“What’s more, every mistake in the film is traceable to some emotional reaction rather than following established procedure. Dallas and Lambert override Ripley’s quarantine lockdown and bring the infected Kane aboard.”

This is a very good argument, though I would add that the main problem with Prometheus and Covenant is that Scott really doesn’t know what “cosmic horror” is. The connections to Lovecraft in the original Alien were mainly because of Dan O’Bannon (a Lovecraft and SF fan from childhood) and Giger (whose book of…

It’s arguable Covenant is a good example of the pitfalls in listening too much to a fanbase. Prometheus wasn’t necessarily a “good” film but in skirting too closely to the Alien IP without actually embracing it, it ticked off vocal internet fans who made the criticism all about it not being “Alien” enough. Maybe the…

The problem with Alien Covenant, and by extension however Scott continues that story is that it plays the Alien story as Gothic Horror rather than Cosmic Horror.

When two days ago i predicted on my comment on another Root article that “they” would say the “real” cause of death was “an underlying condition,” I thought maybe I was being too cynical. But sadly, this is exactly what they are doing to exonerate the murderer who put his full shin and at least half of his weight for…

The underlying legal principle, for us mere non-cop mortals at least, is supposed to be that you take your victim as you find them. As soon as you set to mean harm, then you take the consequences of that harm regardless if you end up causing more harm than you first set out to. Cop set out to cause harm by kneeling on…

Well actually

I agreed with you until Knives Out is movie of the year for you. That movie did not shock or surprise anyone who’s seen any of the whodunnits from the BBC. A week prior to opening night, I texted my friends with my theory and was 95% right simply because Rian is a poor director and can’t manage to stick a landing on…

That’s the whole point. Filoni and Favreau understand the medium they are working with,Johnson did not. Sure it’s a feature film, but it’s a feature film in a nine part series. You can’t just go hog wild with a story in part eight of a nine part series.